- #1 Little Big Workshop
97% matchVery Positive84% of 3,350 reviews2019
Dev: Mirage Game StudiosPub: HandyGames
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manage your workers, stations, machines and create awesome stuff as your little big workshop grows into your dream factory!
Why similar: Simulation 25.3%, Automation 13.3%, Building 10.3%, Management 8.8%, Economy 8.2%
- #2 School Owner
96% matchMostly Negative22% of 63 reviews2024
Dev: Owner Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
School Owner is a construction and management simulation game where you manage an entire school, from pre-school to college.
Why similar: Simulation 22.5%, City Builder 12.1%, Building 10%, Isometric 9.1%, Base Building 7.3%
- #3 Astral Enterprises
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cosmic Fin Studios
Windows · Mac
Design, build, and optimize intricate, space-efficient factories in a unique grid-based puzzle system. Master complex supply chains and dominate a living interstellar economy to build your corporate empire. Conquer the cosmos alone or with friends.
Why similar: Automation 15.8%, Base Building 12.9%, Simulation 12%, Economy 10.8%, Management 9.2%
- #4 Production Line : Car factory simulation
95% matchVery Positive82% of 3,465 reviews2019
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 11.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Production line is the new car factory management/simulation/tycoon game that pushes your organisational and entrepreneurship skills to the limit. Can you build the ultimate optimised, free-flowing car production line whilst beating the competition and still turn a profit?
Why similar: Automation 15.3%, Simulation 13%, Management 10.3%, Economy 9.7%, Building 9.2%
- #5 Complex SKY
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MomosundeassPub: CRITICAL REFLEX
Windows
COMPLEX SKY is a futuristic city building game with a unique architecture system - build the city both ways, up and down! The world is devastated by pollution, and it’s up to you to create a fully self-sustainable city in the skies, and populate it with human settlers.
Why similar: Automation 14.9%, City Builder 13%, Base Building 9.2%, Simulation 8.7%, Building 8.2%
- #6 Outer Factory
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kescoding
Windows
Outer Factory is a peaceful and minimalist simulation where you design automated factories on different planets. Create complex infrastructures with simplified building mechanics. Enjoy your work as an interplanetary automation expert.
Why similar: Automation 18.8%, Base Building 12.7%, Transportation 12% ★, Simulation 11.3%, Resource Management 7.8%
- #7 MegaFactory Tycoon
93% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Brian Strack JensenPub: goto64 Games
Windows
In MegaFactory Tycoon, you are the manager of a fully automated factory. The factory produces consumer products that can be sold for profit on the central market. The factory is fully simulated in real-time.
Why similar: Simulation 23.9%, Automation 22.1%, Building 12.5%, Economy 9.1%, Management 6.3%
- #8 Rise of Industry
92% matchMostly Positive73% of 4,155 reviews2019
Dev: Dapper Penguin StudiosPub: Kasedo Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Put your entrepreneurial skills to the test in the first title in the ROI series as you create & optimise intricate production lines. As an early 20th-Century industrialist, grow your empire & adapt to an ever-changing business landscape with unexpected events that could lead to boom…or bust.
Why similar: City Builder 15.4%, Simulation 12.6%, Economy 11.2%, Management 9.3%, Transportation 8.3% ★
- #9 Dyson Sphere Program
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 90,027 reviews2021
Dev: Youthcat StudioPub: Gamirror Games
Windows
Median: 13.2 hrsMean: 75.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Why similar: Automation 21.7%, Base Building 14.2%, Simulation 9.7%, Space 9.7%, Building 9.5%
- #10 InfraSpace
91% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,870 reviews2023
Dev: Dionic Software
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 21.6 hrs≥1hr: 70%
Create an extrasolar efficiency utopia from scratch! In this sci-fi city builder you need to start mining operations, plan production, and lay down transportation routes to ensure a smooth supply chain.
Why similar: Transportation 15.6% ★, Automation 13.4%, City Builder 13.1%, Simulation 7.6%, Building 7.3%
- #11 Shopping Center Tycoon
90% matchPositive82% of 39 reviews2023
Dev: Musa GUNGOR
Windows
Shopping Center Tycoon Is : Market Simulation & Tycoon and Improve your market. Grow, Design and Manage your Shopping Center with the right Strategy.
Why similar: Simulation 22.5%, City Builder 13.4%, Building 12.6%, Management 11.3%, Economy 10.6%
- #12 Islandustry
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Proper Puppy
Windows
Find the best island, outbid your rivals and start exploiting it. Automate your production and watch the market to sell your goods at the right price. Use your profits to buy upgrades and make your production chain even faster.
Why similar: Automation 19.9%, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 12.8%, Simulation 12.6%, Building 9.8%
- #13 NationForge
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sakanu Games
Windows
A nation-scale city builder focused on city planning and production chains. Strategically place and develop multiple cities, shape them with synergistic policies, and use transportation and trade as supporting systems for a growing planned economy.
Why similar: Transportation 20.4% ★, City Builder 19.3%, Automation 18.4%, Simulation 16.7%, Strategy 5.6%
- #14 Captain of Industry
88% matchVery Positive91% of 10,408 reviews2022
Dev: MaFi Games
Windows
Median: 9.7 hrsMean: 80.7 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Build an industrial empire on a remote island. Mine resources, reshape terrain with excavators, grow food, construct factories, lay train tracks, and trade with the outside world. Research 100+ technologies to advance from basic metal smelting all the way to nuclear power and space flight.
Why similar: Automation 23.4%, Base Building 14.9%, Simulation 11.2%, Resource Management 10.6%, Economy 9%
- #15 shapez 2
86% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 13,196 reviews2024
Dev: tobspr Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 27.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Dive into a factory-building game with the focus on just that – building huge space factories! Design sprawling multi-level factories and satisfying production lines without limits. Tackle progressively challenging automation goals at your own pace, without the threat of enemies.
Why similar: Automation 18.5%, Transportation 15.8% ★, Simulation 10%, Base Building 9.6%, Building 8.8%
- #16 Automation Empire
87% matchMixed66% of 2,635 reviews2019
Dev: DOG HOGGLER
Windows
Median: 8.0 hrsMean: 19.5 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Build and manage a massive industrial network of factories, mines, and farms. Employ a fleet of trains, trucks, and robotic drones. In the age of automation, efficiency is survival!
Why similar: Automation 20.3%, Simulation 15.5%, Base Building 12.8%, Building 8.7%, City Builder 8.2%
- #17 Modulus: Factory Automation
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Happy VolcanoPub: Kwalee
Windows
Build, automate, & optimize elegant production lines, in a factory made from modules you create. Whether you’re solving intricate logistics puzzles or designing aesthetically pleasing factories, Modulus is built for creative expression. Your solutions, like your factories, are uniquely your own.
Why similar: Automation 17.6%, City Builder 12.6%, Simulation 12.4%, Base Building 10.9%, Building 10.3%
- #18 Truck City
85% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2025
Dev: Mikel Fernandez
Windows · Mac · Linux
Grow your truck fleet, build your city and design a supply chain to extract, refine and process natural resources into complex items. Manage your factories and optimize delivery logistics to prevent traffic jams. Unlock new research and turn your small mining town into an efficient industrial city.
Why similar: Transportation 16.5% ★, Automation 14.8%, City Builder 14.2%, Base Building 10%, Simulation 8.6%
- #19 Life In Planet
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Batuhan YılmazPub: Codeks Studio
Windows
Build, arrive, and move into new regions and planets in the depths of space. Whether you will establish a colony and trade or train soldiers and fight, everything is in your hands.
Why similar: Simulation 24.9%, City Builder 18.6%, Isometric 11.7%, Sandbox 9.1%, Strategy 8%
- #20 Factory Town
82% matchVery Positive91% of 4,419 reviews2021
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 14.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, City Builder 13.4%, Base Building 11.8%, Simulation 10.7%, Transportation 10.2% ★
- #21 Smart Factory Tycoon
83% matchMixed61% of 822 reviews2022
Dev: Turquoise Revival GamesPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Smart Factory Tycoon inspired by Little Big Workshop is a tycoon management game about running your dream factory with robots. Design your dream factory, plan all steps of production, research new technologies and become a tycoon!
Why similar: City Builder 14.2%, Simulation 14%, Base Building 12.1%, Building 8.8%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #22 Spacebase DF-9
84% matchOverwhelmingly Negative18% of 4,324 reviews2014
Dev: Double Fine Productions
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
In Spacebase DF-9, you'll build a home among the stars for a motley population of humans and aliens as they go about their daily lives. Mine asteroids, discover derelicts, and deal with the tribulations of galactic resettlement in Earth's distant future.
Why similar: Simulation 21.4%, Base Building 17.1%, Space 13.3%, Sci-fi 9.8%, Building 9.7%
- #23 Dubai Simulator
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Creativity ARPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
In Dubai Simulator, you'll have the chance to design and build your dream city, complete with towering skyscrapers, bustling streets, luxurious resorts, and awe-inspiring landmarks.
Why similar: Simulation 28.6%, City Builder 21.8%, Sandbox 9.1%, Building 9.1%, Economy 8.4%
- #24 The Ten Thousand Li Wall
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Three-headed Giant
Windows
Ten Thousand Li Wall is a city-building strategy game with automation elements where you construct and defend the Great Wall. Manage your settlements, build intricate supply chains, and ensure your people never lose faith in their wise ruler.
Why similar: Automation 16.3%, City Builder 14.2%, Simulation 12.5%, Base Building 11.2%, Isometric 10%
- #25 Spaceflight Factory
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Automation 15%, Transportation 14.9% ★, City Builder 12.8%, Base Building 9.9%, Simulation 9.3%
- #26 Overcrowd: A Commute 'Em Up
80% matchVery Positive81% of 1,740 reviews2020
Dev: SquarePlay Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 59%
Design and build the most efficient metro stations known to man! Excavate. Expand. Set staff priorities. And manage the commuter flow. Overcrowd is a 2.5D management/tycoon/simulator set below the bustling city of Lubdon Town.
Why similar: City Builder 15.1%, Transportation 12% ★, Isometric 10.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Building 9.5%
- #27 Comet Tycoon
78% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: CalmFrantix
Windows
Build and automate your way from a comet miner to an entertainment mogul in this isometric tycoon game. Harvest resources and buy bigger comets to keep more peeps happy, alive and profitable.
Why similar: Automation 19%, City Builder 16.9%, Base Building 14.4%, Simulation 12%, Isometric 11.9%
- #28 Builderment
79% matchMixed66% of 119 reviews2023
Dev: Builderment LLC
Windows · Mac
Builderment is a casual factory builder, where you are sent to far away planets to keep Earth going with fresh resources. Establish your base, then mine, build, transport, and ultimately design an automated operation that will save your home one shipment at a time!
Why similar: Automation 21.6%, City Builder 15.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 9.6%, Simulation 9.1%
- #29 Cities in Motion 2
79% matchMixed58% of 2,494 reviews2013
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Cities in Motion 2 is the sequel to the popular mass transit simulation game Cities in Motion. Build, manage and lead your transportation network to provide cities with their ever changing needs. CIM2 introduces new features including multiplayer game modes, day and night cycles, timetables and dynamic cities.
Why similar: Transportation 26.7% ★, Simulation 25%, City Builder 15.9%, Management 9.8%, Strategy 6.2%
- #30 Quartermaster
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quartermaster Team
Windows
Quartermaster is a management strategy simulation in which you will build a top-secret agency to prepare elite spies for their missions! Research high-tech spy gadgets and run specialized training programs. Manage your staff and stay alert for double agents looking to sabotage your operation.
Why similar: City Builder 13.8%, Simulation 13.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Building 10.3%, Isometric 8.1%
- #31 Nightlife Tycoon
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Koala Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Nightlife Tycoon is a bar management game, where you have to build your dream bar and make it thrive. Hire staff, take care of customers, organize incredible events and become the king of nightlife!
Why similar: Simulation 16%, Building 14.5%, Economy 12.5%, Management 11.6%, Resource Management 10.3%
- #32 Project AURA
78% matchMixed64% of 698 reviews2018
Dev: Nexcentric Games
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Project Aura is a micro management game where you lead a Colony of Climate Disaster Survivors. You have been assigned the mission to build an habitat capable of survival in this new unknown world.
Why similar: City Builder 20.4%, Simulation 17.6%, Building 8.8%, Economy 8.7%, Resource Management 8.3%
- #33 Automation Station
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Boxbot Games
Windows
Explore a mysterious planet, harvest and refine resources, discover new technology, craft machines, and set up automated factories.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Simulation 12.8%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 11.4%, City Builder 8.3%
- #34 Cyber Lounge Tycoon
76% matchMostly Positive79% of 14 reviews2023
Dev: TDSR Entertainment LLC
Windows
Cyber Lounge Tycoon is a sandbox management game where you get to build and customize your own gaming club. Serve each customer or get a staff to do that for you. Upgrade and maintain your existing services. Expand and unlock new options. Decide what kind of club you want to run!
Why similar: Simulation 17.3%, Automation 15.8%, Building 10.1%, Isometric 9.8%, Management 9.5%
- #35 Doodle Factory
75% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2024
Dev: Jan Francis Berdan
Windows
Welcome to Doodle Factory - your ticket to the world of factory fun! Dive into building and designing with ever-changing boards. Get creative, boost your efficiency with cool upgrades, and make each factory uniquely yours!
Why similar: Automation 19.7%, City Builder 17%, Base Building 13.3%, Simulation 11.4%, Building 9.8%
- #36 Stardustry
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CherryBit Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
You are the new manager of Stardustry, the pinnacle of resource extraction and production in outer space! Mine ores, process them and create complex resources in this chill industry simulator set in space.
Why similar: Simulation 25%, City Builder 21.7%, Strategy 9.6%, Building 8.9%, Economy 8.3%
- #37 Two Point Campus
74% matchVery Positive88% of 7,816 reviews2022
Dev: Two Point StudiosPub: SEGA
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 19.6 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Build the university of your dreams with Two Point Campus, the sim with a twist from the makers of Two Point Hospital. Build, hire staff and run an academic institution packed with wild courses.
Why similar: City Builder 17.7%, Simulation 17.4%, Building 13.4%, Management 12.5%, Isometric 10.2%
- #38 Resort Galactica
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Stupid Name Studios
Windows
Welcome to Resort Galactica, a hotel simulator set in space where you design, build, and manage an extravagant resort among the stars. Care for your guests based on each species' individual needs. Expand your hotel with restaurants, leisure centres, and entertainment floors.
Why similar: Simulation 14.8%, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 11.5%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #39 Techtonica
73% matchMixed65% of 3,183 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Hose Games
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 17.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Techtonica is a first-person factory automation game with a gripping mystery about mining your way out from the depths of an alien planet. Explore bioluminescent caves, mold destructible terrain, construct a massive subterranean factory. Dig your way toward answers & discover the secrets of Calyx.
Why similar: Automation 20.6%, City Builder 13.9%, Simulation 13.4%, Base Building 12.7%, Building 11.1%
- #40 FluxWerks
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Metallibitti Oy
Windows
Build, automate, and expand in a vast, ever-expanding voxel world. Harness dynamic fluids, design sprawling factory lines, and research your way from early swarm-mining to quantum computing in FluxWerks.
Why similar: Automation 20.4%, Transportation 15.8% ★, City Builder 15.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Simulation 12.6%
- #41 Twas The Night
72% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Mayham Games
Windows
Build and manage Santa's North Pole mega-workshop in this festive city builder where workshops produce toys for the world's children. Spend Christmas Spirit to create new holiday traditions and upgrade your workshops, but lose your spirit and you'll cease to exist.
Why similar: Simulation 26.8%, City Builder 22%, Base Building 13%, Isometric 10.5%, Management 9.8%
- #42 Good Company
72% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,764 reviews2022
Dev: Chasing Carrots
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Good Company is an in-depth management sim about building a trail-blazing tech corporation. Assemble complex production lines, manage employee logistics, and sell high-quality products on the market to become the best company in the whole county!
Why similar: Automation 15.7%, Simulation 11%, Base Building 10.7%, City Builder 10.3%, Economy 9.7%
- #43 Power of the Ancients
73% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Cortex Code
Windows · Linux
A mostly peaceful pixely isometric city builder with a bit of magic. Four different people live in the four quadrants of the pyramid. Fishermen, farmers, fire people, magicians. Gather resources, build homes, challenge demons and create a thriving city while preparing for winter.
Why similar: Simulation 16.3%, City Builder 15.1%, Isometric 14.7%, Building 12.3%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #44 Cities: Skylines II
71% matchMixed54% of 86,513 reviews2023
Dev: Iceflake StudiosPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows
Median: 23.8 hrsMean: 72.6 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Simulation 18%, Building 12.4%, Transportation 10.3% ★, Economy 9.3%
- #45 Copacetic
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BuhDan
Windows
Copacetic is a resource management game set inside a cube. Place factories and other modules around the walls of your mind, avoiding tangles as you wire them all together. Travel across the galaxy harvesting all sentient biological life. Space is limited, and the only enemy is you.
Why similar: Automation 12.8%, Building 10.6%, Economy 9.7%, Base Building 9.3%, Simulation 8.9%
- #46 Factory Town 2: Paradise
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Erik Asmussen
Windows · Mac
Build and automate a tropical island village at the base of a sentient volcano. Use conveyor belts, boats, trains, catapults and ziplines to produce and deliver everything your town needs!
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, City Builder 15.6%, Simulation 12.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Building 9.7%
- #47 StarScraper
71% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2021
Dev: Mitchell GarrettPub: Rosae Ex Ludis
Windows
So, you’re the new Boss? Seems like every year I get a new entrepreneur to babysit. It takes more than dreams to build a skyscraper! You need to track stocks, utilities, prestige—ah who am I kidding? You're rich, you can do whatever you want. Go on, build rockets into it like the last clown did.
Why similar: Transportation 17.1% ★, City Builder 16.8%, Simulation 11.6%, Building 9.9%, Economy 9.6%
- #48 Citystate Metropolis
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Andy Sztark
Windows
The creative, pragmatic, limitless city builder. Engineer a masterpiece of urban design, a small sustainable town or a futuristic metropolis. With procedurally generated buildings, grid-less zoning and powerful editor tools, everything is customizable: the city is yours.
Why similar: City Builder 19.9%, Simulation 15.8%, Transportation 15.7% ★, Building 12.2%, Economy 10.5%
- #49 The Crust
68% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Automation 17.9%, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 13%, Simulation 9.4%, Space 8.5%
- #50 My Tiny Park
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cold Cabin
Windows
My Tiny Park is a management sim where you design and manage parks of all kinds - from schoolyard playgrounds to sprawling nature reserves. Balance budgets, attract visitors, and craft the perfect outdoor space in this relaxing yet strategic game!
Why similar: Simulation 26.5%, City Builder 22.4%, Building 11.7%, Sandbox 9.5%, Management 9.3%
- #51 Industry Idle
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,446 reviews2024
Dev: FishPondPub: Fish Pond Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 29.1 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Industry Idle is an idle game that combines factory building, resource management and market trading. Design & build your base, expand & scale up your productions, improve & optimize your economy. Plus all the incremental game goodies: offline earnings, prestige to unlock more powerful upgrades.
Why similar: Automation 16.4%, Transportation 15.3% ★, City Builder 12.1%, Base Building 10.6%, Simulation 9.4%
- #52 Megapolis
70% matchMostly Positive75% of 162 reviews2016
Dev: Lonely Troops
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct beautiful city zones with plenty of modern blocks. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.
Why similar: Simulation 38.7%, City Builder 17.6%, Building 9.9%, Isometric 9.4%, Futuristic 5.9%
- #53 Potion Pipeline
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Milkbag Games
Windows
Build huge factories to harvest magical resources and produce potions. Design complex production lines from simple parts to transform ingredients using a deep alchemy system. Ramp up production to fulfill Guild orders, unlock new machines, and create more powerful potions!
Why similar: Automation 22.5%, Simulation 18.2%, Base Building 14.2%, Building 14.2%, Strategy 9%
- #54 Aquis
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Oromith Games
Windows · Mac
Aquis: A strategic elemental adventure where a human mage, stranded in a mystical world, must collaborate with elemental beings to mend a portal breach. Battle shadow creatures, restore harmony, and seek a path back to Earth.
Why similar: City Builder 23.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Simulation 14.6%, Building 12.7%, Economy 11.8%
- #55 Infindustry
68% matchMixed57% of 42 reviews2022
Dev: plyoung
Windows · Linux
A relaxing industry/factory builder where you build, manage, automate, optimize, and expand an industrial village by exploiting various resources to create items.
Why similar: Automation 17.5%, Transportation 16.7% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 11.8%, Simulation 11%
- #56 Cities in Motion
69% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,080 reviews2011
Dev: Colossal OrderPub: Paradox Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 54 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Manage transportation for commuters in four of the world's greatest cities - Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, and Amsterdam
Why similar: Simulation 33.5%, Transportation 18.2% ★, City Builder 15.4%, Management 12.4%, Economy 8.2%
- #57 Factory Engineer
69% matchMixed46% of 132 reviews2017
Dev: Mind Leak
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Factory Engineer is a factory simulation game which is about creating a huge automated factory by building production lines to create products and make money. Start with simple products,make money,unlock technologies then create the most sophisticated products.
Why similar: Simulation 25.8%, Automation 14.3%, Building 13.8%, Base Building 11.4%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #58 Ridiculous Shipping
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Crowfriend
Windows · Linux
Ridiculous Shipping is an arcade management sim about running a chaotic sea port. Unload ships and get every container to its destination using cranes, drones, trucks, and ridiculous buildings like shark-filled aquariums.
Why similar: Transportation 18.8% ★, City Builder 18.5%, Automation 18.4%, Base Building 10.8%, Building 10.6%
- #59 Interstellar Inn
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kunaya
Windows
Interstellar Inn is a 2D hotel building and management sim in space.
Why similar: Simulation 15.9%, Building 14.2%, Economy 13.2%, Sandbox 11.2%, Base Building 10.8%
- #60 HAS Galactics
66% match7 user reviews29% of 7 reviews2025
Dev: HAS Games
Windows
HAS Galactics is a top-down factory builder. Design your own rocket, automate your production lines, balance your reputation between the Galactic Factions and complete daring missions. Start from a humble beginning… to a thriving galactic mega-factory!
Why similar: Automation 18.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Simulation 9%, City Builder 8.8%, Resource Management 8.1%